{"id":1456,"date":"2014-01-20T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:36:00","slug":"oig-compliance-plan-2014-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/oig-compliance-plan-2014-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tough Journey for Physicians 2014-2018 OIG Compliance Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Is your practice ready ?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, <strong>Office of Inspector General (OIG) from the Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS)<\/strong> has proposed a five year strategic plan 2014-2018 to streamline and improve the healthcare delivery process along with mitigated federal revenue spending. Thus, every <a title=\"Medical Billing Company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/about-us.html\">physician billing office<\/a> must be ready with a clear action plan to safeguard your practice from the negative repercussions of this strategic plan.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>What\u2019s the focus ?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article guides the practices in clearing out the roadblocks that could arise from the OIG\u2019s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan implementation.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Key Objectives:<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. \u00a0How to improve physicians\u2019 understanding on goals and priorities of OIG\u2019s Strategic Plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. \u00a0How to prevent violations and bolster healthcare delivery based on OIG\u2019s Strategic Plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the presentation to adopt OIG Compliance guidelines for 2014 !<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/30206377\" width=\"476\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Are You The Right Spectator For This Webcast ?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Does your billing office deem that OIG\u2019s Strategic Plan 2014 is obscure and creepy \u00a0?<\/li>\n<li>Did you encounter scores of impediments to espouse federal and commercial payer policies ?<\/li>\n<li>Until 2013 suffered revenue loss due to penalization under payer policy breaches?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then, this is your perfect topography to instigate your proactive plan for \u201cethically\u201d perking-up the cash flow in your practice.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Understand \u2013 Scrutinize &#8211; Optimize<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Understand:<\/i><\/strong> At the outset, it is very crucial for the medical practices to get acquainted with the OIG\u2019s Strategic Plan 2014 \u2013 their four goals and priorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Scrutinize:<\/i><\/strong> Inspecting your practice for the deficiency in ethically streamlined medical billing is highly imperative to prepare your practice meet the OIG\u2019s Strategic Plan 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Optimize:<\/i><\/strong> Once the lacunae are identified in your medical billing process, you could set the ball rolling. Then, periodical auditing, process improvement, skills development, etc. must be done to ensure the highest safety and profitability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This plan stabilizes and saves the medical practices that are apprehensive about the stringent federal policies and shrunken reimbursements.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>OIG\u2019s Goals and Their Crux<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>I \u2013 To Fight against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the critical mission of OIG to prevent, spot, investigate and take necessary action against the wrongdoers and improve the public fund recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>II \u2013 To Promote Quality, Safety, and Value<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This goal is set to enhance the value of federal dollars by promoting public safety with enhanced quality of care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>III \u2013 To Secure the Future<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a clear prospective goal laid down to thwart the susceptibility of long-term health and viability of healthcare programs. The utilization of <a title=\"EHR Billing Company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/emr-ehr-support\/index.html\">electronic health records<\/a> (EHRs) to secure the healthcare data is one of the imperative entities in this goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>IV \u2013 To Advance Excellence and Innovation<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This goal is chiefly fixed to empower HHS\u2019 own resources like manpower, technology, etc. and it has relatively low direct impact on physicians.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Fair and Square Profit-making&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a physician, you may be highly saddled with the emerging healthcare management and delivery systems, technology boom, healthcare reforms, resource paucities, etc. But, when it comes to the OIG\u2019s legal arena \u2013 no excuses! So, get set with the following vital components to make your practice a cash-cow.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Tips to thwart OIG\u2019s non-compliance perils<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every physician must extract, understand and follow all the OIG\u2019s healthcare regulations so that they needn\u2019t run their practice ethically adrift.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">You could have <strong>CPCO (Certified Professional Compliance Officer)<\/strong> and <strong>CPMA (Certified Professional Medical Auditor)<\/strong> to formulate a vivid <a title=\"Medical Billing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/medical-billing\/\">medical billing<\/a> protocol in sync with the OIG\u2019s medical billing regulations.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regular internal audits must be conducted in your practice to check end-to-end OIG-compliance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Compliance could not be a one man show! So, all the staff members in your practice must undergo periodical staff development program to keep an eye on the OIG-compliant process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your practice ready ? Recently, Office of Inspector General (OIG) from the Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS) has proposed a five year strategic plan 2014-2018 to streamline and improve the healthcare delivery process along with mitigated federal revenue spending. 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